BRITISH actor Damian Lewis is now known worldwide thanks to his starring role in Homeland but admits the major drawback is leaving his two children at home with wife Helen McCrory.

The 41-year-old spends five months a year in North Carolina filming the show, leaving his children Manon, six, and Gulliver, five, behind and reveals one conversation that particularly tugged at his heartstrings.

“I was talking to Gully about something and suddenly without even looking at me he said, ‘D’you know dad? When you’re away sometimes I look out of my bedroom window at night and I call your name and I cry’,” Damian tells Vogue.

“I wrestle with this. Children like you being around. I don’t think there is any substitute for doing it well and just doing it right.”

Children like you being around. I don’t think there is any substitute for doing it well and just doing it right

Homeland actor Damian Lewis

Sounds like Gulliver probably wants to join him on his travels next time.